SynthesisNature communications2016
Disaggregating the evidence linking biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
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- A model of wild bee populations accounting for spatial heterogeneity and climate-induced temporal variability of food resources at the landscape level.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of protection areas in safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services in Tibet Autonomous Region.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Taxonomic, structural diversity and carbon stocks in a gradient of island forests.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Research effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.PloS one · 2021Article
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- Effects of human demand on conservation planning for biodiversity and ecosystem services.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2019Article
- Relationship between ecological condition and ecosystem services in European rivers, lakes and coastal waters.The Science of the total environment · 2019Article
- Global synergies and trade-offs between multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research.Advances in ecological research · 2019Article
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- Community-wide scan identifies fish species associated with coral reef services across the Indo-Pacific.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Bacterial communities associated with honeybee food stores are correlated with land use.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
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- Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils.Nature microbiology · 2018Article
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- Trait-based approaches to analyze links between the drivers of change and ecosystem services: Synthesizing existing evidence and future challenges.Ecology and evolution · 2017Review
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Abstract
Ecosystem services (ES) are an increasingly popular policy framework for connecting biodiversity with human well-being. These efforts typically assume that biodiversity and ES covary, but the relationship between them remains remarkably unclear. Here we analyse >500 recent papers and show that reported relationships differ among ES, methods of measuring biodiversity and ES, and three different approaches to linking them (spatial correlations, management comparisons and functional experiments). For spatial correlations, biodiversity relates more strongly to measures of ES supply than to resulting human benefits. For management comparisons, biodiversity of 'service providers' predicts ES more often than biodiversity of functionally unrelated taxa, but the opposite is true for spatial correlations. Functional experiments occur at smaller spatial scales than management and spatial studies, which show contrasting responses to scale. Our results illuminate the varying dynamics relating biodiversity to ES, and show the importance of matching management efforts to the most relevant scientific evidence.
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